Cast: Claudia - the singer; Ian - the composer; Bill - the writer.
Whilst honing their skills as confidence tricksters in the casinos of the Black Sea resort of Odessa, Ian and Bill chanced upon a most unusual acquaintance. Her name was Claudia and with four Borzois at her feet this ice-cool blonde was downing ice-cold vodkas as if she had just bought shares in the Bison Brand.
She looked like she could sing so Bill asked. "Of course," she replied and raised Bill's temperature several degrees with an a capella rendition of Corcovado in the original Portuguese. Just then, Ian strolled over with a guilty smile and chips worth 250,000 roubles in his jacket pocket* and declared that now was a good time to go and record an album together. It would also be a good time to leave Odessa as whatever welcome they had had had just been outstayed. Thus was Gamine born. And the above is all true.
The album might be titled "Sabotage", and might consist of thirteen songs, with the first four singles already in the bag. The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth singles are still to be decided.
With music as panoramic as Lake Geneva in the rain, as seductive as Jeanne Moreau in "Jules et Jim", as intelligent as Jean-Sol Partre and as functionally stylish as a Fiat 500, Gamine will be sorting out the miserable state of modern popular music as a matter of urgency.
*that was then; these days you would be hard pressed to buy a bag of chips for 250,000 roubles.
FIN
Latest bulletin 11.30.09
Today's the day...
Hello darling fans yes, today is indeed the day! The day you can down...
Hello darling fans yes, today is indeed the day! The day you can download our lovely new album, 'You Can Cry (And Other Lullabies)' from your favourite download store, (provided your favourite download store is iTunes, as it is the only one to have it at the moment, though we are assured the others will all bend to our will eventually...) We realise, of course, that some of you like to hold an actual object in your hands as evidence that the money you have spent has actually been spent, and that it didn't all happen in a dream, and that your identity hasn't been stolen, and that the 21st Century hasn't happened yet and you can still be considered in some lights as a teenager and so on, so we have taken the appropriate step of making a CD version too, which will be available direct from us as soon as we can organise our website in the next few days (don't worry, we'll let you know...), and in your local shops (if they haven't closed down yet) from January 25th next year. lots of gamine xx